ANC EC chairperson tables political report to conference

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

All sectors of society needed to be engaged "to craft a uniform strategy to improve our economy," Eastern Cape ANC chairman and Finance and Provincial Planning MEC Phumulo Masualle said on Thursday morning.

Delivering his Political Report at the party’s 7th provincial conference at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Masualle said the Eastern Cape was the second largest province geographically and the beef industry said it had the largest stock of cattle.

"The irony is that all our consumables are imported from all over the country and we are a net importer of skills and labour to every part of the country."

Masualle said this situation "must change," adding that the National Development Plan was "the minimum platform around which to energise society".

With regard to the ANC, Masualle noted that in a few of the 44 councils in which it was the ruling party "we have experienced what amounts to anarchy from some of our deployees."

"Once they were deployed to these councils, they took to the false comfort of becoming law unto themselves, disrespecting not only the ANC but also the very communities they are meant to serve."

It was "no coincidence," he said, that the Eastern Cape had had the highest number of disciplinary cases."

Masualle also said that the ANC was "equally to blame, if not more" for the collapse of discipline in the Youth League, adding that "drastic steps" would be needed "to salvage the future of the movement by paying attention to the organisation of young people of the ANC".

Masualle also had tough words for some provincial departments that were guilty of underspending, stating that "this was and still is, tantamount to counter-revolution.".

(Source: Metrominute - to subscribe mail metminutes@iafrica.com)